Monday, January 31, 2011

Kitchen adventures so far

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am obsessed with The Pioneer Woman.. She is amazing. Her blog is my favorite blog to read, and one that I think anyone could find entertaining. I first started reading her love story, which can be found here, but then discovered her cooking, home and garden and photography sections. It is like everything I love, all in one blog! When she puts up a new recipe she not only gives awesome directions on how to make them, but also step by step pictures, so you can see exactly what she is talking about. It makes someone who is clueless in the kitchen, and visual learners the opportunity to actually see what needs to be done prior to doing it.

She also has tasty kitchen which is a community where anyone can sign up, post recipes, save recipes into a recipe box and comment/ ask questions. It is my favorite place for searching for new ideas and recipes. If you are looking for something involving chicken and spinach you just type that in and all the recipes with that will come up. If you have some extra veggies you need to use up before they go bad, search and you have tons of options. I started saving all the awesome recipes I thought sounded delicious into my recipe box until the first week of January when I started testing them out.

I started with spinach and cheese stuffed chicken. I had some issues with keeping the chicken "rolled" but this could be because of the cut of chicken I used. It was delicious and I would definitely try it again.

My next experiment in the kitchen was simple teriyaki chicken. I do not really remember much about this one, other than Sean biting into a chunk of ginger and making a funny face. I believe it was good, but not something I am going to be dreaming about.

We had some left over buns and spinach so I decided to try bbq ranch chicken sliders two weeks ago. They turned out pretty good. I think it would have been a bit better with super fresh buns, but I would definitely make it again. With the sliders I attempted to make sweet potato fries. I almost died several times trying to slice the raw potato. Then they would not get crisp at all. It was a total failure. Good thing the sliders were yummy!!

So now we are caught up on what I have tried so far, from now on my kitchen posts will include pictures and more details about each item.

Have a great Monday!

2 comments:

  1. Yes, we know you love Pioneer Woman! She's fabulous!

    Sounds like you're really burning up that kitchen! Those chicken sliders sound yummy . . . I might have to give them a try!

    Love you,
    Auntie T.

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  2. im so awful in the kitchen - its not even worth talking about lOL x

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